“The mangled remains of Fergus Gagen, the former Scioto countian, who was run down by a N&W train at Nolan, West Virginia, arrived here Wednesday night, and were removed to Lynn’s undertaking establishment.” “The body lay on a cot, and was in charge of the dead man’s brother, WW Gagen, and brother-in-law, JD Elder, of …
“Dora A. Delhotal vs August J.B. Delhotal. Petition for divorce and alimony. Petition alleges defendant not only beat, choked and kicked the plaintiff, but that on one occasion he shot her, inflicting a lasting injury upon her. From the schedule of property appended to the petition, it would seem that the defendant was a man …
“Three young men killed, including two brothers, and five persons injured was the traffic toll in the Portsmouth area for the weekend.” “Killed in a one-car accident on Route 73 near McDermott road intersection early Sunday were: Harry Edward Kidder, 27 of Otway Route 2. Herman Kidder, 18, brother of Harry. Robert Redman, 17, of …
On March 15th we undertook a project at the request of the Otway Historical Society to preserve a collection of documents relating to Otway and the Snook family. This collection of records centers largely on events surrounding one family member and is an ongoing project to organize the records into a format that better tells …
“Nineteen miles over the Ohio and Northwestern, along the banks of the Scioto river and thence along the green waters of the Brush Creek, a stream worthy a more euphonious and romantic name, through some of the most rugged and picturesque country that nature has seen fit to spread out, or rather set on end, …
“I promised last week to say something about ‘Bloody Run,’ which cuts its way through the hills north of Otway and if the readers of the Times will indulge me, I will conclude my Otway article, with something pertaining to that, and a few anecdotes which I picked up about old Jim Peyton, a whilsom …
“The Otway Reds and the Virginia Blues (colored) played a very interesting game on the Henley diamond Sunday. The score in the last half of the tenth inning stood 3 to 3, when the game was called on account of an injury to the colored catcher, Watkins. The Blues, or Blacks as they should be …
“A queer case of hair raising occurred near Otway, this county, on Friday of last week. The Carters and Wilsons live about a mile north of Otway. Some time ago Mrs. Wilson loaned Mrs. Carter a barrel; when the barrel was returned Mrs. Wilson remarked with some emphasis that it was not the barrel she …
